Poesia Estrangeira - Academia Brasileira de Letras

Tradução de Benedicto Ferri de BarrosAnalysed all in his book,The enlightenment drive away,The habit forming pain,Mismanagement and grief;We must suffer them all again.Into this neutral airWhere blind skyscrapers useTheir full height to proclaimThe strenght of Collective Man,Each language pours its vainCompetitive excuse:But who can live for longIn an euphoric dream;Out of the mirror they stare,Imperialism’s faceAnd the international wrong.Faces along the barCling to their average day:The lights must never go out,The music must always play,All the conventions conspireTo make this fort assumeThe furniture of home;Leste we should see where we are,Lost in a haunted wood,Children afraid of the nightWho have never been happy or good.The windiest militant trashImportant Persons shoutIs not so crude as our wish:168